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وقصص وحكايات ووعد ووعيد، جال الخاطر في الأكوان لدلالة الكلام عليها وهو مأمور بالتدبر في التلاوة فربما استرسل في ذٰلك الكون لمشاهدته إياه فيه فيخرج من كون ذٰلك الكون مذكورا في القرآن إلى عينه خاصة لا من كونه مذكورا لله على الحد الذي أخبر به عنه.

فيسمى مثل هٰذا إذا أثر شكا له في صلاته فلا يدري ما مضى من صلاته فشرع إن يسجد سجدتي سهو: يرغم بهما الشيطان، ويجبر بهما النقصان، ويشفع بهما الرجحان فتتضاعف صلاته فيتضاعف الأجر وذٰلك في النفل والفرض سواء وما توعد الله بمكروه من سها في صلاته.

فمن تنبه لما ذكرناه وأومأنا إليه يعلم فضل الله ورحمته بعباده والناس عن مثل هٰذا غافلون فلا يعرف شرف العبادات إلا عباد الله الذين ليس للشيطان عليهم سلطان ولا برهان جعلنا الله وإياكم ممن صبر وصلى، وسبق وما صلى^[15] بمنه ويمنه.

وصل في اختلاف الصلاة

والصلاة على النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم الصلاة يختلف حكمها باختلاف أحوال المصلي إذا كان

stories, accounts, promises, and threats. The mind ranges through created things because the speech points to them, and he is commanded to reflect while reciting. He may pursue a particular created thing because he witnesses it there, then move from its being mentioned in the Quran to its own entity in particular, outside its being mentioned by God in the precise terms of what He has related about it.

This counts as forgetfulness when it causes doubt in his prayer, so that he no longer knows how much of the prayer has passed. He is then prescribed two prostrations for forgetfulness, by which he humiliates Satan, repairs the deficiency, and pairs an excess. His prayer is doubled and his reward doubled. This applies equally to voluntary and obligatory prayer. God has threatened no ill for someone who is forgetful within prayer.

Whoever attends to what we have mentioned and indicated knows God’s bounty and mercy toward His servants. People are heedless of such things. Only God’s servants over whom Satan has neither authority nor proof know the nobility of acts of worship. May God make us and you, through His favor and blessing, among those who persevere and pray, who run ahead and never run second.^[15]

Continuation on the Variations of Prayer

As for invoking blessings on the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, the ruling of prayer differs with the states of the one praying when